Simplistique Skin Release - download and screenshots

This is my first attempt at a skin. It is released as a beta version. I wanted to create a skin that was responsive, clean and intuitive whilst keeping a snazzy OEM look. And this is what I came up with. It uses simple, clean, flat images. The buttons were located with ease-of-use whilst driving in mind and to make the skin intuitive, whilst essential information is displayed at all times in the same format throughout.

To Install:
- install fonts from the !FONTS folder yo your windows fonts folder (default: C:\Windows\Fonts) by simply copying the files there
- copy all the "simplistique" folder to your RR skin folder
- The default logo is a BMW badge. This can be changed by changing the logo.swf to one fo your own. If you want to use a JPEG file, you can simply edit the menu.skin file

The skin is in 800x600 resolution. This should run on widescreen (e.g. 800x480) resolutions as the images will just get stretched out although I advise changing the Arial Narrow font to regular Arial for a better display.

SMALL BUG
Caution: There is a small bug with older versions of RoadRunner that Guino has confirmed that causes RR to close with this skin. If you try to use the volume up and volume down buttons in the video BROWSER (not player) RR will close down. Guino has said this will be fixed in the next release of RR.
Link to thread discussin this: Volume Control in RR Video BROWSER Causing RR to Crash and Close

*The TV skin embeds an application and does not use the WinAmp TV plugin.

*GPS embeds iGuidance Europe. There is a destinator skin also created. You will need to edit the menu.skin file to change the path of your destinator/iGuidance fodler if it is different from the default.

Not Included:
- Satelite radio (As I have no experience and no way of finding out how to use this someone else will probably have to make it. We don't have sat radio in the UK!)
- Mobile Phone [possible future addition] (as Phoco doesn't work with my phone yet!)

All my skins are drawn in Macromedia Flash then converted to JPEGs. They are easily editable by anyone.

Screenshots:

As the skin is very icon based here is a short explanation of the buttons in some of the screens (the self explanitory buttons won't be covered):

GENERAL THROUGHOUT THE SKIN
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Speaker with line icon - mute
Line bars - volume level
Three slider lines - mixer
Horizontal bars with a circle cutout icon - back to main main
*Clicking the time remaining text changes it to song time

MUSIC PLAYER
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Circular arrows icon - cycles between repeat and shuffle modes
Magnifying glass icon - brings up the on screen keyboard to search for a song within the playlist
Lightening icon - visualisation on/off
Musical note icon - music browser
Song list area:
single up / down arrow icons move song selection by one
Up / DOwn arrow icons with underline - list page up/down
Horizontal red line icon - remove selected song from playlist
*Clicking the title of the playlist at the top of the list of songs saves the playlist using the on screen keyboard

MUSIC BROWSER
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Musical note icon - back to Music Player
Back/Forward arrow icons - back out from/into folders *holding down the forward arrow takes you back to the music home location
Song list area:
single up / down arrow icons move song selection by one
Up / DOwn arrow icons with underline - list page up/down
Horizontal red line icon - delete selected song file (confirmation box is displayed beforehand)
Pencil icon - rename song file using the on screen keyboard
Large red X icon - stop music playing and clear current playlist
Large + (plus) icon - add selected item (folder/file) to playlist
Large folder icon - CLEARs current playlist then opens and starts playing selected folder or playlist file
Large folder with + (plus) icon - ADD selected folder/playlist file to the current playlist
Magnifying glass icon - search for a particular song file / folder

MIXER
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The title "PREAMP" is the button to enable/disable the WinAmp preamp
Touching the words "vol", "wave", "line" and "mic" mute the lines
Back arrow - return to the calling screen
Menu icon - return to the main menu

I just made the images in Flash as that's the tool I'm most comfortable drawing and designing with. It's a brilliant drawing package without all the animations tuff you can do. There were no real benefits of doing it this way.

I was thinking of doing this at some later date but makes the skinning process a lot more involved. I think the performace of RoadRunner might be affected aswell. For now though, I just wanted a quick, clean, simple, intuitive skinthat looked OEM(ish).

Great skin, great installation, great effort! Thanks for the skin contribution, it's just what I'm looking for really.. only I'll be running on a widescreen 800 x 480! bugger, I'll have to see how it works.

I also can confirm that RR bug on using the vol+/- on the video browser skin. So far it's been running great and I think this will be my main skin for a while now.

Really looking forward to you getting that utilities section worked out, especially having an easy way to get to network connections will be nice. Let me know if I can be of any help, really not a programmer but I test things out or do little skin tweaks.